I've been looking for exactly this for a while. I have looked at LTSP, but it uses PXE, which will not work for the machines I have (Gateway Touchpad).
I'm thinking of rolling my own system that boots remotely from lilo or something -- but I haven't found an elegant solution.
What people don't understand is that evolution is about adaptation, no advancement. Humans are exactly as adapted to their environment as Gorillas are (well, at least until we started messing up the jungles, etc.)
It's bad enough when you hear people say things like, "Chimps are way more evolved than Baboons", but folks love to think the we are evolving into some "higher" lifeform -- what this is no one knows.
Worst example of this is the argument posed by southern evangelicals:
If you believe in evolution, then you believe that African-Americans are inferior.
Not only is this offensive, but it rests on two assumptions that are false:
Evolution has a direction, and
Whites are better than Blacks.
So once again we have proof that the South is stupid AND racist.
For a pre-exisiting diesel vehicle, you can argue that using biodiesel is zero-emissions, from a carbon standpoint. Since the carbon released had been converted from atmospheric carbon, the release is zero-sum.
Of course, there are other emissions, such as NOx, that would have come from the soil, or even petroleum fertilizers.
Except that in the case of the sandwich, it's consumed, gone, after the theft has occured. With Wifi, there is the same "amount" available before and after, regardless of whether it is "stolen" or not.
my boss is a complete incompetent, but because he has kissed the right asses over the last 7 years, he was recently promoted to general manager of our entire division. I've yet to decide if I will quit with the others who are leaving, or wait to watch him crash and burn first person.
Bottom line -- "hard work pays off" is a lie the rich use to keep us down.
You're dipslaying the "slashodot bias" pretty prominently there. The homes that you have been into do not a representative sample make.
Think of the millions of Americans living in real, don't-have-a-job-or-sot-at-one poverty, and the millions of seniors living in retirement homes. When they've all got capable, easy-to-use pc's, then we can say the are 'ubiquitous'.
I work in commercial printing -- heavily variable, fully digital stuff. Aside from our proprietary workflow (which kicks everyone's ass, by the way, but only runs on certain presses) everything we do is PDF-driven. This isn't (only) because Adobe has made tools that make this easy to do, but because every digital press on the market, whether it be Xeikon, Xerox, HP Indigo, NexPress, or whatever, supports PDF on their frontend RIP.
So, until Metro is supported by these manufacturers, we will continue to use PDF. In fact, the way capital expenditures work around here, we will continue using PDF for several years after Metro is supported.
You're taking a simplified -- and incorrect -- view of libraries.
Libraries were not created to assist the poor -- this is merely a beneficial side effect. Historically, libraries were created because books were rare and very expensive (perhaps in that case everyone was poor). Libraries as a public institution grew from the common need and desire of communities to share their books with one another. In addition, universities and research institutions assembled libraries for their own uses.
Would you honestly suggest that I should have to purchase every book in the library that I want to read -- and that you should have to do the same? Sure, that wouls benefit the publishers and booksellers, but it would stifle the creativity of authors, drastically reduce the number of works published, and drive up the price of out-of-print books. Even the RIAA & MPAA can see that there is no profit to be had there.
Libraries allow authors to publish works on obscure subjects, preserve books that are no longer in print, and foster learning and community whereever they are appreciated.
It's not that it's trying to do anything "better" -- it does everything well, and doesn't screw anything up. It "just works", and because it's debian under the hood, it's easy to add or change anything to be the way you want it.
If you're looking for something cutting-edge, whiz-bang -- something you'll have fun playing with and then install something over in a month or two, look elsewhere.
If you need a stable desktop that you can transition smoothly, Ubuntu is for you.
I totally agree with you, and I have had heated arguments with my friends who are high school teachers about how to go about this, and whether what they are doing does not fulfill these goals.
Granted, they are by and large social science teachers (mainly history), and so see the knowledge they try to impart as direcly related to your stated goals.
However, the big barrier to all this, as you allude to, is the attitude that the student must come first as an individual, and that students should not be screened, categorized, "tracked" or anything else, even with the goal of improving that child's education. Much of that springs from "Uhmerkin" ideals of individuality and privacy that are often twisted to the right under the guise of "patriotism".
Where I give my strongest assent is you point that putting the basics of "good citizenship" FIRST doesn't preclude all the other subjects. I would go so far as to assert the converse: putting citizenship LAST makes all the other subjects irrelevant.
Palpatine (Sounds like a touchy-feely knight) Midichlorians (Let's see, they live inside cells, and they come from your mother. Could that be "mitochondria") I could go on, but I've laready wasted more characters than Lucas did justice to.
-- And that's a stupid argument. If Java is being used enough for that to matter, than it has value. That means that even were Sun to go bankrupt tomorrow, Java won't go away -- they would probably have to sell it (the IP) to someone to pay their creditors.
Now, if Java were open-source, Sun couldn't sell it to pay their creditors. So in what way is something _more_ valuable if it is open?
Fine, you don't like NetFlix -- why not use one of their competitor's offerings, like Blockbuster, Walmart, or (likely soon) Amazon.com?
Set aside the legal arguments, and there is no other real benefit to downloading -- it still costs you something, it is more work, and you gamble on quality.
And of course, it is stealing, but you probably don't care.
Ok, I'll admit that a top speed of 100kph (~60mph) isn't going to excite anybody, but why would do I need a vehicle that can go 200kph (125mph) to drive to K*Mart? That speed is nearly double the legal limit anywhere in the US, and would lose you your license right away.
There are existing electric vehicles with top speeds around 120kph (75mph), such as the defunct-but-returning sparrow. That's fast enough for daily driving. And if you want to drive dangerously, ride a motorcycle --high speed, real risk, better fuel economy, lower cost of entry, shorter life spans -- better for the planet!
Sounds to me like you are just rationalizing your own apathy. Why not vote for a third party? At least you can throw your vote away, instead of just letting it wilt.
Other than that, the only thing that is iffy is the airport extreme--broadcom isn't coming forward with documentation and etc to get that to work correctly
We need something like ndiswrapper for PPC, that would let you use OSX drivers under PPC Linux.
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I've been looking for exactly this for a while. I have looked at LTSP, but it uses PXE, which will not work for the machines I have (Gateway Touchpad).
I'm thinking of rolling my own system that boots remotely from lilo or something -- but I haven't found an elegant solution.
Maybe if the software weren't written by baby chickens, it wouldn't take so long to produce.
What people don't understand is that evolution is about adaptation, no advancement. Humans are exactly as adapted to their environment as Gorillas are (well, at least until we started messing up the jungles, etc.)
It's bad enough when you hear people say things like, "Chimps are way more evolved than Baboons", but folks love to think the we are evolving into some "higher" lifeform -- what this is no one knows.
Worst example of this is the argument posed by southern evangelicals:
Not only is this offensive, but it rests on two assumptions that are false:
- Evolution has a direction, and
- Whites are better than Blacks.
So once again we have proof that the South is stupid AND racist.Excuse me, but I think you missed the sarcasm in the parent's post.
Just thought I would let you know, so you don't go on embarrassing yourself.
That is not the same as making them "root". Have you used Ubuntu? It's the same idea.
For a pre-exisiting diesel vehicle, you can argue that using biodiesel is zero-emissions, from a carbon standpoint. Since the carbon released had been converted from atmospheric carbon, the release is zero-sum.
Of course, there are other emissions, such as NOx, that would have come from the soil, or even petroleum fertilizers.
Well, there is the one that all the others are derived from:
SCO UnixWare
Except that in the case of the sandwich, it's consumed, gone, after the theft has occured. With Wifi, there is the same "amount" available before and after, regardless of whether it is "stolen" or not.
my boss is a complete incompetent, but because he has kissed the right asses over the last 7 years, he was recently promoted to general manager of our entire division. I've yet to decide if I will quit with the others who are leaving, or wait to watch him crash and burn first person.
Bottom line -- "hard work pays off" is a lie the rich use to keep us down.
You're dipslaying the "slashodot bias" pretty prominently there. The homes that you have been into do not a representative sample make.
Think of the millions of Americans living in real, don't-have-a-job-or-sot-at-one poverty, and the millions of seniors living in retirement homes. When they've all got capable, easy-to-use pc's, then we can say the are 'ubiquitous'.
I get about two days of normal usage. I wish it were more, but I charge it every night anyway.
I work in commercial printing -- heavily variable, fully digital stuff. Aside from our proprietary workflow (which kicks everyone's ass, by the way, but only runs on certain presses) everything we do is PDF-driven. This isn't (only) because Adobe has made tools that make this easy to do, but because every digital press on the market, whether it be Xeikon, Xerox, HP Indigo, NexPress, or whatever, supports PDF on their frontend RIP.
So, until Metro is supported by these manufacturers, we will continue to use PDF. In fact, the way capital expenditures work around here, we will continue using PDF for several years after Metro is supported.
You're taking a simplified -- and incorrect -- view of libraries.
Libraries were not created to assist the poor -- this is merely a beneficial side effect. Historically, libraries were created because books were rare and very expensive (perhaps in that case everyone was poor). Libraries as a public institution grew from the common need and desire of communities to share their books with one another. In addition, universities and research institutions assembled libraries for their own uses.
Would you honestly suggest that I should have to purchase every book in the library that I want to read -- and that you should have to do the same? Sure, that wouls benefit the publishers and booksellers, but it would stifle the creativity of authors, drastically reduce the number of works published, and drive up the price of out-of-print books. Even the RIAA & MPAA can see that there is no profit to be had there.
Libraries allow authors to publish works on obscure subjects, preserve books that are no longer in print, and foster learning and community whereever they are appreciated.
And don't even get me started on librarians...
It's not that it's trying to do anything "better" -- it does everything well, and doesn't screw anything up. It "just works", and because it's debian under the hood, it's easy to add or change anything to be the way you want it.
If you're looking for something cutting-edge, whiz-bang -- something you'll have fun playing with and then install something over in a month or two, look elsewhere.
If you need a stable desktop that you can transition smoothly, Ubuntu is for you.
Yes, they do. And it would appear that laziness is their primary means of change.
Except that you cannot highlight a section of text and replace it with what is in your buffer -- makes it hard use for pasting URL's.
I totally agree with you, and I have had heated arguments with my friends who are high school teachers about how to go about this, and whether what they are doing does not fulfill these goals.
Granted, they are by and large social science teachers (mainly history), and so see the knowledge they try to impart as direcly related to your stated goals.
However, the big barrier to all this, as you allude to, is the attitude that the student must come first as an individual, and that students should not be screened, categorized, "tracked" or anything else, even with the goal of improving that child's education. Much of that springs from "Uhmerkin" ideals of individuality and privacy that are often twisted to the right under the guise of "patriotism".
Where I give my strongest assent is you point that putting the basics of "good citizenship" FIRST doesn't preclude all the other subjects. I would go so far as to assert the converse: putting citizenship LAST makes all the other subjects irrelevant.
Don't forget:
Palpatine (Sounds like a touchy-feely knight)
Midichlorians (Let's see, they live inside cells, and they come from your mother. Could that be "mitochondria")
I could go on, but I've laready wasted more characters than Lucas did justice to.
-- And that's a stupid argument. If Java is being used enough for that to matter, than it has value. That means that even were Sun to go bankrupt tomorrow, Java won't go away -- they would probably have to sell it (the IP) to someone to pay their creditors.
Now, if Java were open-source, Sun couldn't sell it to pay their creditors. So in what way is something _more_ valuable if it is open?
Fine, you don't like NetFlix -- why not use one of their competitor's offerings, like Blockbuster, Walmart, or (likely soon) Amazon.com?
Set aside the legal arguments, and there is no other real benefit to downloading -- it still costs you something, it is more work, and you gamble on quality.
And of course, it is stealing, but you probably don't care.
How can you call yourself a geek and not know that?
Ok, I'll admit that a top speed of 100kph (~60mph) isn't going to excite anybody, but why would do I need a vehicle that can go 200kph (125mph) to drive to K*Mart? That speed is nearly double the legal limit anywhere in the US, and would lose you your license right away.
There are existing electric vehicles with top speeds around 120kph (75mph), such as the defunct-but-returning sparrow. That's fast enough for daily driving. And if you want to drive dangerously, ride a motorcycle --high speed, real risk, better fuel economy, lower cost of entry, shorter life spans -- better for the planet!
Sounds to me like you are just rationalizing your own apathy. Why not vote for a third party? At least you can throw your vote away, instead of just letting it wilt.
Since when is 6'2" not tall?
We need something like ndiswrapper for PPC, that would let you use OSX drivers under PPC Linux.